Weekly Roundup: July 24th, 2020

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🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

President Trump announced yesterday that much of the Republican National Convention would be cancelled because of coronavirus concerns. School reopening continues to be a major concern for parents, most of whom want to see their kids return to the classroom but worry that it can't be done safely. And Republicans find themselves divided over what to include in their coronavirus aid proposal.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, education correspondent Anya Kamenetz, and congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell.

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0:00.0	Hi there, this is Hannah from Owensboro, Kentucky, and I'm enjoying this
0:04.6	sweltering afternoon by painting 57,000 miles of fence in my backyard.
0:09.1	This podcast was recorded at 109 pm on Friday, July 24th.
0:16.4	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I will probably still be
0:20.7	painting this fence. Alright, here's the show.
0:24.8	It sounds to me like she's exaggerating about the length of her fence.
0:30.1	57, I was thinking I was like 57,000 miles, that is a big fence.
0:36.6	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:41.6	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:43.6	I'm Maija Shorosko, I also cover the White House.
0:46.4	And the president has canceled part of the Republican National Convention, the big public
0:52.0	celebration part of the Republican National Convention, as cases of the coronavirus
0:56.9	continue to mount across the state of Florida.
0:59.6	But I looked at my team and I said the timing for this event is not right, just not right
1:05.4	with what's happened recently, the flare up in Florida, to have a big convention, it's
1:11.7	not the right time.
1:13.4	Aisha, our listeners have been listening closely, we'll know that this has been a long
1:20.1	saga. It was in theory going to be in North Carolina and then it was going to be in Florida.
1:27.8	You know, and the whole reason why it was supposed to be in Charlotte, but they, you know,
1:33.3	Charlotte was saying back way back in those old days of June that they didn't know whether
1:37.8	they could guarantee that you could have an event with thousands of people, no mask,
1:44.5	no social distancing because of this coronavirus.
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